It’s been seven months since Public Health began reporting demographic data on the county’s COVID-19 cases, which showed a disproportionate rate in the Latinx community, much like the rest of the nation. On Tuesday, Humboldt County Health Officer Ian Hoffman told the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors that about 13 percent of the county was […]
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Public Health Pledges Support for Latinx Community, Assures it Won’t Ask About Documentation Status
Humboldt County Public Health issued a statement of support for the local Latinx community — whic h has experienced a disproportionate impact form COVID-19 — and pledging that its contact investigators will not ask people about their “documentation status.” According to the statement, the Latinx community makes up about 12 percent of Humboldt County’s population […]
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Interpreting Equity During a Pandemic
One of my first memories interacting with other children in our community is of having my older brother, Mauro, interpret for me as we were playing — he was attending school and picking up English much faster than I was. We would migrate back and forth from Mexico where my abuelita y abuelo (grandma and […]
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Preguntas Comunes Acerca del Coronavirus
1. ¿Cuáles son los síntomas comunes del coronavirus COVID-19? Los síntomas más comunes de la enfermedad son fiebre, cansancio, tos seca y falta de respiración. La persona también puede experimentar molestias y dolores, congestión nasal, secreción nasal, dolor de garganta y / o diarrea. En las situaciones más graves la persona comienza a sentir dificultad […]
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El Gañador
Humboldt State University’s bilingual student newspaper El Leñador was recently named California’s best non-weekly student newspaper. At its Excellence in Student Media awards banquet in Los Angeles, the California College Media Association tapped the now 3-year-old paper for its First Place prize for the category of Best Newspaper, with a judge noting that the Spanish-English […]
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Two Recent Vehicle Fatalities Bring Humboldt’s 2015 Road Deaths to 27
A fatal crash on Saturday and another yesterday morning bring the year’s total road deaths up to 27. As reported in our September cover story, Humboldt County has one of the highest rates of vehicle fatalities in the nation and this year is on pace to break previous records for road deaths. Saturday’s crash occurred as […]